As technology executives from around the world gather in Germany for Cebit, the world's largest technology gathering, they lament the lack of recovery in the technology sector. Last year at this time, executives and analysts thought technology was poised for a recovery, but twelve months later, they are still waiting. Companies are now turning to collaboration and cooperation to increase the number of homes connected to the internet - and thereby increase sales of related technology.
See "It's an uphill struggle for executives", James Connell, International Herald Tribune, March 16, 2003